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iQuestions Faculty, Ron Blue 
 
 
Question: 
 
What are the primary abuses by home-based business owners? 
 
Answer: 
 
RON BLUE: This is something that is close to my heart, because I’m 
the one who has answered the questions on the abuses, and I’ve seen 
the abuses over the years. It’s interesting to me that network 
marketing, multi-level marketing, home-based businesses, tend to 
spread throughout the Christian world.  
 
You ask, why would that be? There’s a tremendous amount of abuses 
in the Christian world in this industry. The reason is most of these 
businesses are built on relational marketing. 
 
And what happens with people is that they overstep the bounds when 
it comes to their relationships. I have watched you [Judy] understand 
what the boundaries are. It’s the fact that maybe the product you’re 
selling is beneficial to somebody, but there’s a boundary, and people 
have the right to say no, and it needs to be respected. That’s one of 
the biggest abuses that I’ve seen. 
 
JUDY BLUE: One of the favorite things about the product that I sell is 
that there really are a lot of respect for those boundaries, and respect 
for people. We’re very educationally-driven, we’re about helping and 
empowering you, not ultimately selling you a product, but about 
providing you with a lifestyle solution.  
 
RON: I think the second biggest abuse is the over-promised financial 
results. Many times the home-based business company that is trying 
 
 
to promote their business are selling the business, as opposed to the 
product. If the product is not legitimate, the business isn’t legitimate 
either. So, I think as a caution, if you’re being sold on a business 
opportunity and about how much money you can make, I would run 
away about as fast as I can. Because it’s all about the product, and not 
about the business.  
 
When you start seeing people talking about the business opportunity, 
you’ve got a real problem, I think, in terms of the home-based 
business. It’s not about the business. It’s a side benefit. It’s a good 
benefit. But it’s not the primary reason for getting into it. 
 
JUDY: I think what I’ve seen, primarily, over the ten years, is that 
when the emphasis is on the financial benefit, it tends to have a 
product with a short life. Yes, maybe you can make a lot of money, 
with a little bit of effort, in a little bit of time, but it doesn’t have 
continuing residual income. Which is what I love so much about the 
product that I have. It’s a lifetime product. It’s a product that 
everybody needs. It enables you to have a growing residual income. 
 
RON: Be very, very careful about the relational abuses. Understand 
that when people say no, it’s okay that they say no, there’s a whole 
bunch of other people out there. Don’t abuse those networks that you 
have, those relational networks that you have. Especially don’t abuse 
them in the church.  
 
Other than that, I wish you good success in the business. 
 
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